Bud's 2004 Davis Cup Finals Diary - December 2004

2004 Davis Cup Finals - Part #4 - December, 2004
MOYA MORE THAN ENOUGH AS TINY MALLORCA BEATS GIANT U.S.
When the old Italian tunesmith, Rossini, first presented his opera, “The Barber of Seville,” in 1816, the barber was named Figaro. But today in Seville the barber was Carlos (Charlie) Moya, who clipped and trimmed Andy Roddick, and gave the United States a permanent wave goodbye to the Davis Cup for another year. >>>MORE

2004 Davis Cup Finals - Part #3 - December, 2004
TWINS RESCUE THE DAY FOR YANKS, EARNING TEAMMATES HEARTY THANKS
There is a “tomorrow” after all for the staggering Americans in this ancient city where a sort-of connection to their past, Christopher Columbus, is buried in the massively ornate cathedral. >>>MORE

2004 Davis Cup Finals - Part #2 - December, 2004
DOWN AND DIRTY – CLAY’S SELDOM BEEN THE WAY TO PLAY FOR THE U.S.A.
Neither is a Man of La Mancha, but the two wandering Americans named Andy Roddick and Mardy Fish may feel like Don Quixote going against malevolent windmills tomorrow. Tilting with tennis rackets while 27,000 Spaniards screamingly try to drive them as cuckoo as old DQ himself. >>>MORE

2004 Davis Cup Finals - Part #1 - December, 2004
VIVA ESPANA – DONOR DWIGHT DAVIS WOULD HAVE LOVED HIS POT’S PASSION.
The 2004 season ended with a bang for Spain and a whimper for the USA. Though Dwight Davis – donor of the big silver punchbowl that travels under his name – was an American, he would have loved the showdown for the world team championship that he inaugurated in 1900. >>>MORE

Bud's 2004 Davis Cup Semi-Finals Diary - September 2004

2004 Davis Cup - THE U.S., LOOKING TO DRINK FROM THE CUP, BEATS BELARUS TO JOIN SPAIN IN THE FINAL- September, 2004
The “Beast of Belarus” came to this lovely seaside town, bent on a mission to enthrall his 10 million countryfolk, from President Aleksandr Lukashenko on down. That includes Mikael Pavlov, the mayor of his home town, Minsk, plus the mob of two Belarussian journalists covering the Beast’s heavy task of beating a country called the United States of America on a local tennis court. >>>MORE

2004 Davis Cup - BEWARE THE HUMAN OCTOPUS --
TWINS CLINCH - September 26, 2004
OK, riddle fans -- what has four arms, four legs and acts like a giant octopus in the pursuit of tennis balls?
Why, it’s the Brothers Bryan, who bring to mind one of those old movies in which the hero struggles desperately to free himself from the tentacles of a nasty creature of the deep.>>>MORE

2004 Davis Cup - SPEED DEMON ANDY’S ON THE LOOSE - September 26, 2004
Zooooom!
There goes Andy -- speeding again. But neither caught nor arrested.
That was the “Meteor Man,” Andy Roddick, burning rubber tennis balls and scorching the green South Carolina pavement of Daniel Island, a remote neighborhood of Charleston, thereby spicing his credentials as the heaviest-handed server in the game. >>>MORE

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